Quick couplings for Excavator

Applications and features

Excavators are used for a lot of different purposes, from the dig of trenches, holes, foundations to demolition, forestry works and material handling.
The advent of hydraulic-powered attachments such as a breaker, a cutter, a grapple or an auger has in fact given the excavator, whose traditional task was excavation with buckets, a multi-purpose nature.

Types of hydraulic couplers for excavator

ISO 16028 quick couplings is definitely the most common type of hydraulic couplers installed on the boom of excavators.
The necessity to clean quickly and effectively the mating surfaces of quick couplings to avoid introducing contaminant into the hydraulic circuit and the need to rely on a standard profile so to mix freely couplings of different brands without concerns on possible connection troubles has determined the diffusion of these products on a global scale.

Why choose Faster quick couplings?

Thanks to great performances in terms of robustness, flow capability and resistance to corrosion Faster’s ISO 16028 quick couplings are commonly acknowledged as Best-in-Class products. Furthermore, Faster is the only hydraulic quick couplings leader manufacturer offering a special version (FSH series) of ISO 16028 quick couplings, equipped with latching sectors to ensure the connection between mating halves instead of latching balls.
The benefit offered by this design solution is a significantly increased resistance against “brinelling effect”, that is the typical permanent deformation of a metal surface provoked by high-frequency pulsing pressures.
Hence, FSH is the ideal quick coupling series when attachments like hydraulic hammers need to be connected to an excavator, as there’s absolutely no risk of accidents caused by the mechanical collapse of the quick coupling; further, expensive downtime is no longer a concern of operators, be them owners of the excavator or borrowers.